Photos - Second World War

President Franklin D Roosevelt confers with Winston Churchill at a press conference during the Casablanca Conference, 24 January 1943.

Troops of the 2nd Monmouthshire Regiment leap from their Universal carrier during an exercise near Newry in Northern Ireland, 26 April 1941.

A Gurkha soldier guards Japanese prisoners on their way to POW camps outside Bangkok, September 1945.

Winston Churchill studies after action reports with Vice Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, Flag Officer Comanding Dover, 28 August 1940.

The driver of a Bishop 25-pdr self-propelled gun of 142nd Field Regiment in Sicily, 27 July 1943.

Winston Churchill watches a female riveter at work on a Supermarine Spitfire at the Castle Bromwich factory in Birmingham, 28 September 1941.

Sherman DD tanks of 'B' Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars support men of No. 4 Army Commando advancing towards Ouistreham on D-Day, 6 June 1944.

Cecil Beaton portrait of an Indian naval rating operating a signal lamp on the sloop SUTLEJ at the Royal Indian Naval Station at Calcutta, 1944.

Private W Stack of No. 9 Commando at Anzio, equipped for a patrol with a Browning pistol, 5 March 1944.

Buildings burning in Manchester after a German air raid on the night of 3 December 1940.

British soldiers smile at a 'Viva Il Duce' slogan on a wall in Reggio, Italy, September 1943.

Two members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) check the accuracy of anti-aircraft fire from a gun battery during the Second World War.

Wing Commander Guy Gibson (centre), CO of No. 106 Squadron RAF, with his two Flight Commanders, Squadron Leader J H Searby (left) and Squadron Leader P Ward-Hunt, at Syerston, on the completion of Gibson's tour of operations, March 1943.

Winston Churchill inspects the 1st American Squadron of the Home Guard on Horse Guards Parade, London, 9 January 1941.

A soldier from 101st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment prepares for D-Day by reading his French handbook at a camp near Portsmouth, 29 May 1944.

Four 'stick' commanders of 22nd Independent Parachute Company, 6th Airborne Division, synchronising their watches in front of an Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle at about 11 pm on 5 June 1944, just prior to take off from RAF Harwell in Oxfordshire.

South African troops of 1991 Swaziland Smoke Company wait to board landing craft at Castellammare before sailing for Anzio, January 1944. The unit was responsible for creating smokescreens over the invasion area.

Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) women at a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun site at Wormwood Scrubs in London, 22 October 1941.

Churchill inspects Polish troops at St Andrews in Scotland, accompanied by his wife Clementine and General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Premier of the Polish Government-in-Exile and commander of Polish forces, 23 October 1940.

Cecil Beaton photograph of a British soldier drinking tea next to a Red Cross mobile tea wagon at Calcutta airport in 1944.

Winston Churchill with his scientific advisor Lord Cherwell (extreme left), Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, watching a display of anti-aircraft gunnery, June 1941.

Winston Churchill gives the "V" sign in reply to cheering troops as he leaves the liner QUEEN MARY with his wife Clementine on his return from Canada, September 1943.

Allied anti-aircraft fire over Algiers during a night raid, 23 November 1942.

The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill in RAF uniform, accompanied by Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff, leaving Consolidated Liberator "Commando" of No. 24 Squadron RAF at Lyneham, Wiltshire, on their return from the Casablanca